Listagem por autor "Flôres Junior, Renato Galvão"
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The 19th week effect: prospects for flexibilization in six European countries
2020-05-07In this Note we examine the situation in six EU countries -Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal and Spain- just before the beginning of the 19th week, and further validate two proposals -put forward in Flôres (2020)1- ... -
Agents, econometricians and the identification of rational expectations systems
1994-04-01This paper generalises previous results on the identification of rational expectations (r.e.) models, establishing necessary and sufficient conditions on the structural form of static and dynamic models, without specific ... -
Are CGE Models still useful in economic policy making?
2008-02-28This paper develops background considerations to help better framing the results of a CGE exercise. Three main criticisms are usually addressed to CGE efforts. First, they are too aggregate, their conclusions failing to ... -
Beyond indifferent players: on the existence of prisoners dilemmas in games with amicable and adversarial preferences
2004-12-01Why don’t agents cooperate when they both stand to gain? This question ranks among the most fundamental in the social sciences. Explanations abound. Among the most compelling are various configurations of the prisoner’s ... -
Capitais internacionais: complementares ou substitutos?
2003-10-10This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the substitutability of international private capital flows. Both univariate and multivariate investigations of the capital movements related to the Brazilian ... -
A CAPM with higher moments: theory and econometrics
1997-10-01We develop portfolio choice theory taking into consideration the first p~ moments of the underIying assets distribution. A rigorous characterization of the opportunity set and of the efficient portfolios frontier is given, ... -
Concorrência no Mercosul: para além do Protocolo de Fortaleza
2001-01-01We address specific problems to be considered once the Protocolo de Fortaleza becomes a fully recognised agreement. Elimination of anti-dumping measures a la WTO, services competition and the interrelationship between the ... -
Os desafios da integração legal
2004-12-01We introduce and discuss the idea of Legal Integration, providing a few evidences on it, in Brazil and South America. The forms of and incentives to Legal Integration, as well as the answers to it, by Western Europe, Mexico ... -
The diversity of diversity: further methodological considerations on the use of the concept in cultural economics
2006-10-01The implications of diversity still raise confusion in the cultural debate. We address them from both a formal and conceptual viewpoints, putting in check the validity of some arguments. We conclude that: measuring diversity ... -
Do higher moments really matter in portfolio choice?
2004-12-01We present explicit formulas for evaluating the difference between Markowitz weights and those from optimal portfolios, with the same given return, considering either asymmetry or kurtosis. We prove that, whenever the ... -
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Dynamic Effects of MERCOSUR: an assessment for Argentina
2000-06-01We evaluate the potential dynamic effects of MERCOSUR on the Argentinean economy. Two approaches, already used with other regional integration agreements, are applied for measuring, respectively, medium and long-term ... -
Emerging powers and global governance
2017-10This paper highlights and discusses three riddles inherent to emerging countries’ attitudes towards the existing Global Governance (GG) network. The riddles address, respectively, a contradiction related to the decaying ... -
Endogenous protection in Mercosul: an empirical analysis
2000-12-01This paper analyses the equilibrium structure of protection in Mercosul, developing empirical analyses based on the literature ensuing from the sequence of models set forth by Grossman and Helpman since 1994. Not only ... -
Engaging the productive sector in the climate debate: codes of sustainable operational practices for FDI (with a view on the mining sector)
2017-11This Report boldly advocates -within a realist view of the climate debate- a shift in the COP efforts and output. The shift amounts to giving more attention and room to bottom-up agreements, in which the Conference would ...
